Blurt #2: Picking Scabs
by Lew Houston
A good window into Lew's view of the rock and roll lifestyle. There's a lot of drinking and touring involved, but also heartbreak and wandering. He's a romantic. He walks around aimlessly, hangs out in diners, knows people wherever he goes, and explores the neglected parts of town. Lew knows how to throw a few good literary devices into each paragraph and make the most mundane and painful experiences into stories worth telling. This issue is one long love story about 5 years of living in Kutztown, PA: going to college, falling in love, breaking up, obsessing, reveling with friends, and attempting to seperate the people from the places. it's the same format and just about as long as blurt!#1. Lew is really really proud of this issue and can't wait for everyone to see it.
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Lew makes reading about Kutztown much more interesting than living there for three and a half years.
An utterly engaging pocket sized piece of sheer perfection! Tip top cut and paste layout, super black print on bright white paper with a few graphics for flavor. Journey through the college years of one young punk in Kutztown, PA. Experience the mad crushes, love lost and found and then lost again, the cutest punk girl on campus, all night trips to the local diner, a faithful rusted pink bicycle, getting drunk and learning about life. These are just bits culled out of the core topic (or so it seemed to me anyway) which is all about nostalgia and moving through the ghosts of your past. How a town can keep a tight grip on your heart even though all the main characters have scattered to the four corners of the world and all you've got left are incredibly vivid memories that keep playing through your mind like a slide show. Of course this is also mainly about one girl in particular, but it all happened in Kutztown and sometimes you just have to keep picking at that scab or poking at that purple yellow bruise. It reminds you that you're alive and every day is a new adventure. No matter how much some of it hurts. Fanfuckingtastic. Crucial (karoline, Slug and Lettuce)
I had the priviledge of reading this just after lew got back from the copy shop with a backpack full of scammed copies.
Lew writes about a love story that isnt out-of-this-world insane, or full of wacky situations. he writes about a love story that is exactly how it really happens. The nervous, the wonderful, the nauseous parts of falling in love. Its a zine thats embarrassingly honest, and unbelievably good.